Winter Storm Watch<\/strong> that was initially issued for the area has now been upgraded to a Lake Effect Snow Warning. The warning begins at\u00a0 1 a.m. Wednesday and will include heavy lake effect snow is possible with total snow accumulations of 6 to 10 inches possible in the most persistent lake snows.<\/p>\nWinds could gust as high as 35 mph Wednesday and Wednesday night, creating areas of blowing and drifting snow.<\/p>\n
Forecasters say travel could be very difficult Wednesday night into Thursday morning, with areas of blowing snow significantly reducing visibility.<\/p>\n
As a result of the winter weather across the region, Governor Cuomo directed state agencies to prepare for a potentially hazardous morning commutes today across Upstate New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
BUFFALO – A bout of winter weather will continue in Jamestown and Chautauqua county for the next couple of days with the National Weather Service issuing a Winter Storm Watch from early Wednesday morning through Thursday morning. This is in addition to the Winter Weather Advisory that remains in effect until 4 p.m. Tuesday afternoon. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":7989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[1655,9046,8932],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/winterstorm.jpg?fit=332%2C249&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3YlJ4-8lD","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32093"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32093"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32096,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32093\/revisions\/32096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}